Peaceful Leonids
Lying in the darkness in the cold night
Wrapped in my grandmother’s quilt,
I watch the Leonids weaving light in the black sky
singing their way to earth.
Peace coming up from the earth
And down from the sky.
I watch the meteors bursting into light
And I am healed.

We seem to have done it again, Toni! I’ve only just posted and got around to reading and we’ve both found solace in the night sky. I love the lines:
‘I watch the Leonids weaving light in the black sky
singing their way to earth’.

It takes about an hour for your eyes to fully adjust to total darkness and then the waiting for the spits and spurts of the meteors. I have lain outside from 11 pm until 5 am on many a night watching. in the winter I have several sleeping bags inside each other and a quilt on top of that to say warm. It is a wonderful time.